[mattlach]

Fritsch, have yu had any luck installing plymouth with your setup procedure in the first post? Everytime I enable a splash (including ones from the ubuntu repos) I get a error alog the lines of 'a file named ".so" cannot be found, skipping theme'. Thought Id check here before filing a bug report, because you usually include a section for plymouth in your guides. Cheers

Same issue here. I did not investigate it further. I just boot with without splash as it needs max 3 seconds anyways.

I spent some time looking into it today.

I found this over on the Ubuntu Forums and played around with it a bit.

The original suggestion for a fix didn't work for me. No matter what I do, I get the default Ubuntu 16.04 text splash.

I wonder if the difference here, why the posters fix worked for him, and not for me has to do with differences between Desktop and Server images.

Either way, it's not a big deal. As you say, only a couple of seconds. I do like having at least the Ubuntu one up there for the boot though, as it covers up the ugly LXD error that 16.04 server edition displays on every boot.

[eddiewould]

Hi,

I'm running Kodi 16.1 on a Braswell NUC (NUC5CPYH). Playback of a 10-bit HEVC file was poor (video gets garbled, audio loses sync etc). Is there any likelyhood that upgrading to Kodi 17 will help with 10-bit HEVC or am I out-of-luck?

Depressingly, my 2011 MacBook (i5 @ 2.4GHz) is able to play back the file OK in VLC (it might be skipping frames or something, but it's definitely watchable).

[fritsch]

Braswell is too slow for hevc-10 bit (besides some 720p or low bitrate 1080) in general. Your i5 macbook is much, much faster cpu wise.

[eddiewould]

Braswell is too slow for hevc-10 bit (besides some 720p or low bitrate 1080) in general. Your i5 macbook is much, much faster cpu wise.

Thanks for the info, thought as much. Should have gone for something with a bit more grunt.



My MBP has taken basically all day to transcode 10bit 10 8bit.

[fritsch]

Wsnipex ppa now ships libva / libva-intel-driver 1.7.1 - this has the color issues fixed:

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:wsnipex/vaapi
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[JaccoH]

Just wondering:

Will this code be finished in time to make it into Krypton?

[fritsch]

All is in, nothing left.

[chrissi323]

Just a short question,

am I right that my Beebox N3150 should be able to handle:

bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4
bbb_sunflower_2160p_60fps_normal.mp4

because for me it's skipping frames like mad and I can't figure out what's wrong.

I followed the Howto and tripple checked every step.

[fritsch]

No Debug Log no issue. As you followed the howto, you for sure have seen which logfiles are mandatory.

[chrissi323]

fritsch, I'll gladly provide the logs... So the Beebox should be able to handle it?

Logs:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/17970639/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/17970671/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/17970673/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/17970674/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/17970675/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/17970713/

[chrissi323]

I just realized that kodi was running for hours...

here is a shorter kodi.log with debug enabled

http://paste.ubuntu.com/17972650/

[fritsch]

Manually disable Lanczos3 for these files and choose Bilinear and retry.

[chrissi323]

No Skips for the 30fps version and much lesser for 60fps. I guess that is as far as one can geht with that tiny CPU

[fritsch]

Yes. The problem here is, that also for downscaling this HQ scaling is used. We hope to get that solved automatically with our process Info. So player realizes: System is too slow -> change to bilinear.

[User 182116]

Just a short question,

am I right that my Beebox N3150 should be able to handle:

bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4
bbb_sunflower_2160p_60fps_normal.mp4

because for me it's skipping frames like mad and I can't figure out what's wrong.

I followed the Howto and tripple checked every step.

I've just run those 2 files on my Beebox N3150 and both play flawlessly.

I use VAAPI - Motion Compensated for Deinterlace method and Bilinear for Video scaling.